Evolution Debate

Latest Blog Posts on the Evolution Debate

Guest writer Myron Pauli, a Ph.D. in physics, argues for the need for a separation of State and Science. As always, Dr. Pauli offers much food for thought.
Most of us understand the concept of separation of church and state (government). But few understand how that can carry over into separation of education and state or science and state. Government determination of “truth” often winds up ba ...

A point made by many proponents of the Biblical creation story over modern scientific explanations for the diversity of life will use the argument that evolution lays the basis for an "immoral" view of the world.
Supporters of the accepted scientific model will hit back that the above argument is simply a logical fallacy. That is true. There is nothing in an argument saying "evolution is im ...

Science is meant to be the opposite of a belief system. No one underlined this point more securely than Charles Darwin, who devised a theory of evolution that defied the strongest belief of his time, the all but universal belief in the bible version of the origins of man. The fossil record supported a notion contrary to the Bible, that creation was a process, not a single event dictated by a divi ...

Recently, a close friend of mine made the remark that our emotions for the most part are basic, primal, immature, and unevolved. Ever since then, I have been ruminating on the validity of this statement. If our emotions are basically primitive, then how they be our allies, especially on the path to personal growth? Might emotions be so backward that they are enemies of growth instead? Like most g ...

When he wrote his 2006 best-seller, The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins expected to accomplish two aims that have proved to be remarkable failures. The first aim was social. He wanted to attract a horde of doubters, fence-sitters, and agnostics to gather their courage and join the atheist ranks. This never happened. There has been a quiet, steady decline in church attendance for at least fifty yea ...

Crucifixion Of Jesus
Why did Jesus die? The most honest answer? Nobody really knows.
Not even the Apostle Paul and he was likely the first to write about these matters (Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 12).
Death by crucifixion is a painful, slow death and virtually unimaginable to the modern mind. History tells us that the Romans put thousands of people by death by crucifixion .
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As my husband had surgery today, and I've been helping him prepare (yesterday), and then spent today at the hospital, today's post is an extended riff on one from last year, also on Darwin's birthday.
I love science. And of course Darwin — like Da Vinci, like Einstein, like Copernicus — dominates it. Today is his birthday, and I promise this post has to do w/ beginner's heart (at least even ...

Skepticism has gotten itself into a pickle - perhaps something a lot more serious than a pickle - that is undermining its good name. The credibility of Wikipedia may be at stake (see below). We live in a skeptical age, because the cornerstone of science, "Everything must be verified," is a skeptical position. When a researcher claims to have accomplished something remarkable, such as cold fusion, ...